Netac "USB flash drive" registered trademark revoked

Nanfang Daily News (reporter/Cheng) as the father of the domestic U disk, NETAC technology recently met a little setback.　　April 9, Netac Technology issued a notice, on April 6 received the business judges on the "USB Disk" trademark dispute award, the Trademark Commission identified its "flash drive" trademark for the general name of the commodity, the NETAC application to be revoked. For the "Flash disk" trademark was revoked, NETAC Technology said, the company's product sales have no significant impact, "flash drive" trademark is one of the company's intangible assets, has been revoked in July 2009, in the financial book on the value of zero.　　The company has decided to bring an administrative lawsuit against the Beijing-China court, but there is uncertainty about the outcome of the trial. It is understood that the "flash disk" trademark controversy is the originator of the Beijing flag information, its October 18, 2002 to NETAC owned the 1,509,740th "flash drive" trademark to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Trademark Review Committee to withdraw the application, after a long 7 years waiting,　　On March 15, 2010, the commercial judges ruled that the trademark No. 1,509,704th "Flash drive" was the common name of the commodity and revoked the registration. For the final win, the Chinese flag information, said that the "flash drive" trademark revocation is a good thing for the entire industry, China's enterprises should focus on intellectual property rights, but not abuse.　　But the Chinese flag also said the lawsuit between the company and Netac has been a long time ago, before the announcement of the Zeranco, the two sides have reached a settlement, and Netac in some areas of cooperation. According to the introduction, although the loss of "USB" logo, however, as the pioneer of domestic flash disk products, NETAC technology still has more than 116 patents in the field of flash memory, including 79 inventions, and 220 patents are still in the application, patent licensing involves China, the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and other dozens of countries and regions. The relevant patent licensing business still accounts for nearly 50% of NETAC Technology's gross margin.